We're getting a new set of computers at work which is always annoying to me because it takes a couple hours at least to customize a new one in a way that works for me. That's also why I take the IT team's advice of shutting them down and unplugging them each night so I don't kill the battery and have to start all over again.
I believe Buxton and Alcala are the only Twins remaining from the 2019 juggernaut
Kepler hasn't been moved yet. Dobnak is technically still with the team too.
I just Battey'd Kepler, lol
The first header I got this morning was the new TC slipping one. Well freaking played.
Today is the 55th anniversary of the Beatles rooftop concert. What I find absolutely amazing is that it was less than 5 years between the Beatles performing on the Ed Sullivan (2.9.64) show and this rooftop performance. Less than 5 years!
A Beatles song came on in the car when I was driving the kids and I started thinking this is like if my parents played Al Jolson or something when I was young.
I'm absolutely fascinated how fast pop culture changed in the 60's. 1963, clean cut boys were singing about meeting their sweetheart on the boardwalk; 1970 a bunch of long-haired thugs called Black Sabbath were singing about the War Pigs and Paranoia.
I blame Dylan.
Al Jolson?! Let's go with Sinatra or someone -- Jolson died in '50
No, I think Jolson is an apt comparison; the 55th anniversary of the release of The Jazz Singer was 1982. Jolson’s music would have seemed very dated to ears around that time.
An even closer analogue would be Glenn Miller, who went MIA at 40 and was declared dead a year later. John Lennon was 40 when he was murdered, at a time when Glenn Miller’s music would have seemed dated and definitely outside the sphere of young folks’ listening habits. So dated, in fact, that Glenn Miller was in the opening line of a sitcom theme song for a show about a guy struggling to deal with social change.
More time has now elapsed between George Harrison’s death and today than John Lennon’s death and 9/11. In 158 days, more time will have elapsed between Glenn Miller’s disappearance and the present than elapsed between the end of the American Civil War and Glenn Miller’s disappearance.
As one of my favorite podcasters likes to say, “The [decade] will make the [decade 30 years prior] seem like [the decade 60 years prior].”
The reason I preferred Sinatra over Jolson is that the Beatles aren't (completely) dead, and are still (sort of) releasing new music, but I guess it all depends on our parents' ages what they might have been listening to
Reading reaction about the Polanco trade and wheat I have got out of it is that everyone thinks Anthony DeSclafani is a lock for the rotation, whereas I guess I see him as a bullpen dude unless the Twins are done trading. Because the next trade will bring a quality SP arm.
It looks like they plan to re-invest the money saved by this trade into the lineup, maybe.
https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2024/01/falvey-twins-plan-to-reallocate-money-saved-in-polanco-trade.html
gotta think there's a RH bat / platoon on their radar
Bring back La Tortuga
I'm guessing a 1b.
I saw some people eyeing Carlos Santana.
I hope not. Santana’s so old, Brent Gates pinch hit for i-i in the game the Twins played on the day Supernatural was released.
Santana’s Santana will turn 55 years old this summer.
55 years before Santana, Honus Wagner became the first player in MLB history to tally 3,000 hits. And some Austrian guy was shot.